世界中心

不能為自己感恩的時候
也可以試著為他人感恩
因為世界的中心
一開始就不在這兒
不然只會跌入自我的黑洞
直至骨頭都枯乾
(當然這樣說已經夠自我了)

Before words of thanks

Before I start a new day of a new life.
Before I rejoice in the happiness of the union of love.
Before I show my gratitude and say my thanks.
May I search my heart and remain silent.
May I be reminded of Your love and Your righteousness.
May I devote our marriage to You.
Shall I always thank in my heart for the love of those who loved us.
Shall I always seek You and Your Way before ours.
Shall I always submit myself to You and she whom You set up as my wife.

May we pray that we will always stick close to You so we will always live joyfully in dignity in You.

Thanks!!

Thankful for the computer I am typing onto - essentially the only thing I know well enough to make a living with.
Thankful for the Internet connection with which I am blogging - without which I wouldn't be able to work remotely for my job.
Thankful for the afternoon tea I had a couple hours ago - I wouldn't have gone to that restaurant without the flexibility of my work.
Thankful for the clothing I have on right now to fight the chilling weather - without which I would be shivering and feeling numb right now.
Thankful for the air I breathe in. It's much cleaner than that on the road - and thankful for the cleaners and construction workers on the streets.
Thankful for the access to clean WC - so many children still don't know how one looks like.
Thankful for the access to the health system - I could have been one of the children in Africa who die of poor water quality.
Thankful for the immunization shots I had in my early days - I could have been infected and died of a deadly disease.
Thankful for the education I received - I can even spell my name!
Thankful for the TV shows that entertain me - pure luxury.
Thankful for the gifts from my siblings - what have I done to deserve them?
Thankful for the fellowship with brothers and sisters in church - you have been a safety net for my heart especially when I am depressed.
Thankful for the opportunity to sing in the choir - what an amazing time to cheer for the love and the truth that make the world a livable place.
Thankful for the electricity and light with which I can work at night - again, isn't it a luxury? =)
Thankful for picking me up when my intoxicated mind no longer told right from wrong - You went to the souls' dumpster to reach for, not once, but so many times.
Thankful for friendship that lasts - each of them is a heavenly bonus to my lifelong journey.
Thankful for having known people who come in and out of my life - there's so much to learn from and to be thankful to them.
Thankful for the passerbys - I wish I would have made a better effort to make peace with them.
Thankful for having a dad and a mom - or would I be able to be thankful here at all?
Thankful for having all my siblings - I wasn't alone even when I was sent to somewhere I wouldn't call home.
Thankful for showing me grace and walking with me - You wait and care for me even when I let You down, not letting me go astray.
Thankful for not looking down on me - though I have had a sinistral heart and was called a believer in vain.
Thankful for restoring a right mind and a clean heart to me - now I know I would not be able to be so thankful without being cleansed by Your holiness.
Thankful for forgiving my many transgressions - thanks for freeing me from the low ideals and the sense of undeserved love and the chains of bondage in Your presence.
Thankful for sending angels to me.
Thankful for Your miracles - to give me the extra strength my weak mind needed.
Thankful for Your touches on my soul - so I undeniably know that You are with me.
Thankful for sending messages to me each week during sermon - I know each of them addresses me.
Thankful for Your messengers including Ravi Zachiarias - He brought me back to Your grace.
Thankful for giving me company even in the darkest hours - You spoke to me and comforted me and wiped my tears and had fellowship with me.
Thankful for this job - or I wouldn't know what else I could do well in. You gave such flexibility to me and opened my heart to others' needs.
Thankful for showing to me the good purpose of life - I am eternally thankful for knowing You.
Thankful for restoring my trust - what a strayed heart needed to get back up.
Thankful for the good times I had with my Seattle pals - those were the wonderful days I will always cherish.
Thankful for the partnership I had with my Vancouver pal over the years - It was so rewarding and I am always indebted.
Thankful for sending me a secondary classmate in my loneliest days in Vancouver.
Thankful for giving me an identity of high esteem among Your sons and daughters - a new character out of a new beginning.
Thankful for bringing to me the partner I can be faithful to for the rest of my life - You picked for me so I may always find security and console in You.
Thankful for teaching me what love is - and what would life be without it.
Thankful for the hope I have in You in the future, rough or smooth.
Thankful for the peace You have restored in my soul.
Thankful for making me stop running around for self-fulfillment - Your commendation is the worthy cause.
Thankful for introducing to me angels like Ng Ka Yu - what a difference a well-lived life makes!
Thankful for taking care of me when I was by myself in Seattle with angels like Queenie - may You bless them, dearly!
Thankful for the sacrificial love from the Creator of all - we will meet in the True Light and death cannot lay claims to us anymore.
Jesus, thank You!!

Morality in Our Heart

There is a new TV commercial on air in HK. The HK gov created a pretty stylish ad against tolerance towards corruption at workplace. The first question I would have, as the finger pointer, is whether I would be affected by it. Then I recalled Bill Clinton's sex scandal and how it was played down publicly. Now no one cares if it has ever happened.
With those thoughts I came to a conclusion that any person would--our hearts decay along with our tolerance to evil. I could have avoided the E word. Yet, I would then be tolerating sin out self-pity-ness. I suppose some do not think of anything wrong between Clinton and Monica, for they do not put value on fidelity. Convenience and satisfaction of flesh are far more meaningful to them. In a global trend towards higher degree of freedom and sensational satisfaction, morality is determined to be kicked out of homes, schools and workplaces. Once it was the crux of the constitution, now it's a word that is forbidden in our daily lives. We live in an era in which efficiency weights over personality. When we talk about work ethics, it's only about tolerance towards all kinds of preferential differences. As a society, we have at will given away our responsibilities to steward within ourselves, for ever higher gratification and less guilt among others. I then recall in Genesis how Cain killed his brother Abel over jealousy. When the Lord asked Cain where his brother went, Cain lied. The all-knowing Lord spoke that the land had complained to Him of the blood it received of Abel. It uncovered the murder to the Lord. During our lifetime, we just go along with the injustice of the age, go on with our personal gratification and let alone the cry of the innocent and the righteous. Until the day the Lord comes find us.

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Knocked off course

I really don't like to take on this new task. Yet there's no one else around to take it over. I had plans that I can no longer go with because of that. How discouraging. I guess I am mean in a sense that whenever it comes to things that disrupt my personal schedule, I get really frustrated and reluctant about it. I would keep on mentally picturing the troubles doing so and longing for ways to escape from the responsibility. After all, I haven't gone to CBP for a couple of months already. And out of all days in the week I can probably only go there tomorrow. Now I can no longer... sigh...

The positive side of me tries to intervene. I am advised that it would be a good time to get to make a new friend. The will to stay positive on this is admittedly weak. I hope the mood for the rest of the day isn't going to be completely spoiled. It took so much to get myself in a good mood after all...

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